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rake-off
[ reyk-awf, -of ]
noun
- a share or amount taken or received illicitly, as in connection with a public enterprise.
- a share, as of profits.
- a discount in the price of a commodity:
We got a 20 percent rake-off on the dishwasher.
rake-off
noun
- a share of profits, esp one that is illegal or given as a bribe
verb
- tr, adverb to take or receive (such a share of profits)
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of rake-off1
Idioms and Phrases
Make an unlawful profit, as in They suspected her of raking off some of the campaign contributions for her personal use . This expression alludes to the raking of chips by an attendant at a gambling table. [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
And the double taxation — by the lottery itself and by the taxes on any winnings — means that the “benefit†even for the occasional winner further obscures the amount of the rake-off.
But the men with no fingerprints won’t permit it, those athletic directors and presidents who have subverted college athletics into a rake-off while pretending to govern them.
The Russian ministry already got what it wanted from its willing partner the IOC, which was the oligarchical rake-off from Sochi’s immense buildup.
Up to that time the two men had made a substantial rake-off six days in every week.
As it advanced there was a tightening of the tension and at the welcome “amen†there was a grand rake-off.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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